Fox News led all of television for President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address on Tuesday evening.
In the 9-11 PM ET window, when the majority of Trump’s speech took place, more than 9.1 million viewers were tuned to Fox News, on average. The network also saw the largest audience for the Democratic response from Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA), with 4.7 million watching that speech.
ABC News was the next closest challenger, with 5.1 million viewers throughout the speech.
In the cable news space, Fox News far outpaced MS NOW, which averaged 2.4 million viewers, and CNN, which saw 2.2 million.
The race was closer in the broadcast television sector. While ABC saw 5.1 million viewers, NBC News averaged 3.6 million, and CBS News featured an average audience of 3.3 million. The FOX broadcast network averaged 2.1 million viewers throughout the window.
An additional 269,000 viewers watched the speech on Fox Business Network, according to Nielsen. Fox News Digital averaged 252,000 concurrent viewers in its vast array of viewing options for President Trump’s speech.
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